"You and I both," Ellana admitted, chuckling to herself. Accepting her handkerchief back, she couldn't help but remain amused at the other's antics and curiosity. "Once I almost went to judge a prisoner only to be stopped by one of my advisors because I had a smear on my ear."

Perhaps before she caught the next airship to Esdham, she'd get a time to wash the cloth.

"So I'm told," she smiled politely, though it didn't quite reach her eyes. "I never had nor wished to. If anything, I sent spirits back to their reality. Mages are especially susceptible to the influence of spirits, thus I was trained since I was young that the risks were not worth the cost." Pausing for a moment, she glanced at their unconscious charge before looking to meet Rialynn's gaze. "An external summoning, if the spirit is forced to comply by the mage's demands, can corrupt them into a demon if it goes against their nature. An internal summoning can corrupt the mage themselves, along with the spirit if the mage's intentions corrupt its sentience. There's only one case I know of that didn't lead to tragedy."

She remembers what they spoke of another mage who was raised in the Circle... one who wasn't as lucky as her to have a spirit to ask those questions to, or her boyfriend who knew much more about the Beyond.